BBC News Peter Fleischer, Google&#8217;s global privacy counsel, said in a statement: &#8220;After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we&#8217;ve concluded that it would be a good thing for privacy to significantly shorten the lifetime of our cookies. [read post]

Twenty-three privacy authorities worldwide, including several members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, issued a joint open letter to seven app marketplace operators, urging them to improve access to privacy information on mobile apps for users. [read post]

Twenty-three privacy authorities worldwide, including several members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, issued a joint open letter to seven app marketplace operators, urging them to improve access to privacy information on mobile apps for users. [read post]

Twenty-three privacy authorities worldwide, including several members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, issued a joint open letter to seven app marketplace operators, urging them to improve access to privacy information on mobile apps for users. [read post]

Twenty-three privacy authorities worldwide, including several members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, issued a joint open letter to seven app marketplace operators, urging them to improve access to privacy information on mobile apps for users. [read post]

ITBusiness has an interesting article on the collaboration between the Ontario Privacy Commissioner and Facebook, including a video interview with the commissioner: Your privacy, your responsibility says Ontario Privacy Commissioner. [read post]

It would not be "reasonable" to make the state the arbiter of privacy because privacy is not something in which the state has a vested interest; indeed, privacy is in many respects antithetical to the state's interests since, if nothing else, the limitations imposed by privacy make it more difficult to investigate and prosecute crimes. [read post]